History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 571.
[Bourbon County]    [Centerville Precinct]

WILL A. GAINES, farmer, P. O. Centerville; is a representative of one of
the old and prominent families of the Blue Grass region; he was born
August 9, 1840, in Fayette, and is the son of O. W. Gaines and Amelia
(Smith) Gaines, daughter of John Smith, of CLark County.  O. W. Gaines
was born in Fayette County, Jan. 28, 1816, and died Jan. 1, 1847; his wife
subsequently married W. O. Thompson, of Georgetown.  The grandfather of
Will A., F. S. Gaines, was born in Shenandoah County, Va., May 31, 1781,
and removed to Kentucky in 1802, settling in Fayette County.  Will A. owns
a fine farm of 180 acres, and is quite an extensive breeder of short horns,
Poland-China hogs and Southdown sheep; his herd of short horn cattle
consists of twenty-two females, at the head of which is "Young Mary."  In
politics, Mr. Gaines is a Democrat, and during the war he served in the
Ninth Kentucky Cavalry as Sergeant Major, with Co. W.C.P. Breckinridge and
Capt. F. Gano Hill.  During his service, Mr. Gaines was wounded once, and
twice taken prisoner.  Dec. 21, 1865, he married Miss Bettie Hill, daughter
of John Hill, of Bourbon County.  Mr. Gaines has had quite a varied
experience in life, but is now giving his entire attention to his farm and
stock breeding, of which in the latter he already occupies quite a
prominent place in the county.

Gaines Smith Thompson Hill
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Fayette-KY Scott-KY Shenandoah-VA

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